BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//American Psychoanalytic Association - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:American Psychoanalytic Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://apsa.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for American Psychoanalytic Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T003000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240920T210440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T040759Z UID:20000443-1731106800-1731112200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Asteroid City DESCRIPTION:Asteroid City (2023) has been described by writer-director Wes Anderson as a“poetic meditation on the meaning of life”. Set in the 1950’s\, Asteroid City is a young girl’s coming-of-age story that deviates from one simple narrative line. Asteroid City leaves the comfortable and familiar setting of a summer camp/and opens up to a line of adventure that constitutes a complete interruption of all plans through its confrontation with an outer space alien. Dreamlike switches between different layers of the narrative\, which reflect on one another\, require the audience to question any and all layers of the events\, and penetrate beyond the manifest toward the latent\, meaningful\, content. \nLearning Objectives\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nExplain the importance of differentiating manifest vs. latent content in learning the meaning of a dream\nApply the psychodynamic principle of defensive operations to explain how the dramaturgy of Asteroid City (with its use of atomic testing and space aliens) guides the audience to the writer’s intention of contemplating the meaning of life\nDescribe the mental ecology and function of the intersection in daily life of trauma with fantasy activity and aesthetic function \nPresenter:\nBettina Soestwohner\, PhD\, PsyD holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine and taught literature and language for many years. She is a Research Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she regularly presents in the film series. She taught at the University of California Southern in the Psychology program. A member of the Freudian School of Quebec (EFQ)\, she is in charge of the work of the EFQ in California. She is a founding member of the group SPIIRAL that works on advancing the theory and practice of psychoanalysis today as required by clashes between cultures and civilizations. Currently she is doing research for a project on Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater and questions of aesthetics. She is interested in the intersection of studies in daily life with trauma\, fantasies and aesthetics. \nLuis Vallejo\, MD is a psychiatrist who attended Vanderbilt University on a full tuition Chancellor’s scholarship and completed his M.D. at Baylor in the Houston Medical Center. Beyond Psychiatry board certification\, Dr. Vallejo pursued extensive psychodynamic/analytic training via the Cincinnati Institute\, and is a current post-seminar candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He holds a private practice in Beverly Hills and is a consult-liaison Psychiatrist at Cedars Sinai Beverly Hills Medical Center\, Baptist Health Medical Center\, and Orbit Telehealth. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-asteroid-city/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240909T145857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T203755Z UID:20000414-1729958400-1729972800@apsa.org SUMMARY:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Election DESCRIPTION:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall:\nControversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election \nPanel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond\, PhD\, David James Fisher\, PhD\, Mark Fisher\, MD\, Debra Myers\, MD\, Peter Wolson\, PhD \nTown Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson\, PhD \nOn the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and American democracy in question\, Dr. Wolson will moderate a Town Hall discussion of the most pressing\, controversial issues\, from a psychoanalytic perspective. This forum provides an opportunity for mental health practitioners to express their opinions about the election as well as a professional space to analyze the unconscious psychodynamics embedded in the issues and affecting the candidates. Dr. Wolson and a distinguished panel of psychoanalysts will speculate about the psychodynamic trends that emerge from the discussion. Participants of every political persuasion are encouraged to attend. \nThe presenters along with the audience will actively participate in a discussion\, moving from opinions\, feelings and beliefs to a more objective state with greater understanding of psychodynamic implications. The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness about “the political issues” and how it impacts us as professionals\, as well as our client population. The program will aid the clinician in identifying and addressing the psychodynamic mechanisms underlying current political issues and parties\, helping us with our clients and our own countertransference issues that may be evoked in the clinical setting. URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-psychoanalytic-town-hall-controversial-issues-in-the-2024-election/ LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T010000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240909T145842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T180840Z UID:20000412-1729206000-1729213200@apsa.org SUMMARY:The Perils and Promises of a Unified Clinical Model DESCRIPTION:Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century\, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian\, Jungian\, Kleinian\, Self-Psychological\, Relational\, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper\, “Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis’ Future Lies in Pluralism.” In brief\, Dr. Karbelnig believes that psychoanalytic clinicians practice framing\, presence\, and engagement in their work with patients. They pursue the unconscious mind through focusing on transference and countertransference\, repetitive psycho-behavioral themes\, and dreams (and other signifiers of the unconscious). After explaining the six-point model\, Dr. Karbelnig will invite the audience to question and discuss these admittedly ambitious ideas. \nBy the end of the presentation\, participants will know how to: \nApply three fundamental psychoanalytic interventions\nDistinguish between theories of engagement\nPractice confrontation\, followed by empathy\nComprehend the three foundational paths to accessing unconscious material URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-perils-and-promises-of-a-unified-clinical-model-2/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T193000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240909T145842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T145842Z UID:20000410-1728502200-1728502200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Mark Solms’ “Source of Consciousness” Prep Course DESCRIPTION:Mark Solms\, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst\, has substantially altered contemporary understanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear and personable writer\, but his understanding draws on science largely unfamiliar to psychotherapists. \nIn preparation for his appearance at next Spring’s NCP Manifest Mind conference\, we are offering an introductory course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring. The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer\, who will also be presenting at the May 2025 Manifest Mind Conference. \nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course. \nAffect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\nFeeling by an organism of fluctuations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\nConsciousness is seated in the midbrain\, not the Cortex;\nThe cerebral cortex provides context\, “memory of the future”\, to consciousness;\nConsciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tractable;\nPerception is applied uncertainty;\nAction is an ongoing process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\nAffect is an extended form of homeostasis\, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight against ENTROPY;\nAffect hedonically valences biological needs… Each category of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective quality of its own;\nNeeds cannot all be felt at once. They are prioritized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”. The actions that are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary\, which means they are subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithms;\nAll mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\nThe default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKING—proactive engagement with uncertainty\, with the aim of resolving uncertainty in advance. When this affect is prioritized\, it is felt as curiosity and interest in the world.\n*Course has a limited space for participants and will be held over Zoom only.*\nCourse Sessions & Learning Objectives:\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): These objectives aim to connect Solms’ work in “The Hidden Spring” to practical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice\, focusing on its relevance to psychiatry\, neurology\, and psychoanalysis. They encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making. \nSESSION 1 – Oct. 9\, 2024\nTopic: Feelings \nReading: Chapters 1-6 (to page 148) \nLearning Objectives: \nExplain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness\, emotions\, and the core of self- experience;\nList the seven Panksepp motivational systems that define mammalian behavior;\nSESSION 2 – Nov. 13\, 2024\nTopic: Friston Free Energy \nReading: Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189) \nLearning Objectives: \nDefine the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “predictive priors”;\nExplain the importance of the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic analysis of brain function;\nSESSION 3 – Jan. 8\, 2025\nTopic: Consciousness \nReading: Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237) \nLearning Objectives: \nDescribe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms\, and their implications promoting adaptive\, creative\, and pathological behavioral consequences;\nAnalyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in “The Hidden Spring” to understand the demands on the mind for action;\nSummarize Solms’ critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\nSESSION 4 – Feb. 12\, 2025\nTopic: Mind \nReading: Chapters 11+post (pages 238-305) \nLearning Objectives: \nExplain how Solms’ integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be applied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\nDiscuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\nSESSION 5 – Mar. 12\, 2025\nTopic: Perennial Philosophy in relation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind \nReading: Sawyer\, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, 64(4)\, 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399 \nLearning Objectives: \nDiscuss the ethical implications of Solms’ views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychotherapeutic process and change\, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\nPrepare a case presentation that integrates Solms’ neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by Panksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment\, demonstrating its potential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems.\nCourse Readings:\nSolms\, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books. \nSawyer\, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, 64(4)\, 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399 \nFaculty:\nBarton J. Blinder MD\, PhD\, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and Chair of the NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a Distinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor and past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and additionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA\, in addition to leadership\, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines\, Commission and Caucus on Psychotherapy in Psychiatry\, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiographical memory\, Neuropsychoanalysis\, Spontaneous Thought\, and Free Association in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions\, and Treatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma\, Response to psychoanalytic/psychodynamic treatment\, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic roots of somatization\, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Beach. \nThomas M. Brod MD\, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series\, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP\, the co-coordinator of the Film and Mind Series\, and is psychoanalyst in private practice. \nRecording:\nEven though all sessions will be held on Zoom\, this presentation will not be recorded. URL:https://apsa.org/event/mark-solms-source-of-consciousness-prep-course/ ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T200000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240909T145842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T145842Z UID:20000409-1728072000-1728072000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film & Mind: The Headless Woman DESCRIPTION:The Headless Woman is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. After hitting something with her car\, a bourgeois woman’s life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation\, as she fears she may have killed someone. Not well-known to American movie-goers\, Martel is “arguably the most critically acclaimed auteur in Spanish-language art cinema.[Paul Julian Smith]” and “one of the greatest directors in the world right now [Vogue]”. \nIn a 2009 interview\, Lucrecia Martel explained the usual layered narration of her films\, “I work with a number of elements that are tied together\, and each one of them is present in each scene in different positions\, different perspectives\, foreground or background”. In The Headless Woman Martel ties together the personal (the protagonist personal reaction to her car accident); the sociocultural and economic world she belongs and operates into; the recent Argentine history (the genocide during the 1976-1983 military rule)\, and the Latin American history based upon colonial power\, oppression\, and racism. She creates a character of complexity and ambivalence in disarray for the audience to share and ultimately identify with. \nPresenter:\nJorgelina Corbatta was born in Bahia Blanca\, Argentina where she studies and graduated as Licenciada and Professor in Philosophy and Letters (Universidad Nacional del Sur). She also has a Master and Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures (University of Pittsburgh) and is an Academic Analyst (Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute). Emerita Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and ex-Director of Women Studies at Wayne State University\, and Academic Associate Faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute\, she has taught courses on Contemporary Narrative and Film\, Latin America Literature\, Women’s and Cultural Studies\, Literature and Psychoanalysis at universities in Argentina\, Colombia\, Chile\, US\, Sweden\, France\, Belgium\, Austria\, and Spain. In 2004 she received a Research/Teaching Fulbright Award (Universidad de los Andes\, Bogotá\, Colombia). She has seven books on literary/film criticism – on sociology of literature\, on the narratives of the Dirty War\, on Feminism and Women Writers in Latin America\, on Juan José Saer\, on Jorge Luis Borges\, on Manuel Puig\, published in Spain and Argentina. Her latest book and first in English\, is Psychoanalysis and Narrative. Literature\, Film and Autobiography by Routledge (2024). She has also published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed Journals and is currently looking for a publisher for her Spanish manuscript on “Auto-fiction/ Psychoanalysis and Intertextuality”. In 2017 she received the IPA/IPSO International Psychoanalytic Award for her paper “The Quest for\, and the Denial of\, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s Dark Desires and the Others. Diaries of New York (IPA/Buenos Aires\, July 2017). In addition\, she has received several awards for teaching\, directing graduate students and conducting research at Wayne State University. She is currently writing her autobiography and continue writing essays on literature and film through a psychoanalytic lens. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-the-headless-woman/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T200000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240909T145838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T014133Z UID:20000406-1726862400-1726862400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Saltburn DESCRIPTION:Cinematic masterpiece Saltburn\, (2023) directed by Academy Award winning Emerald Ferrell\, is a fascinating study in perverse autonomy. Barry Keoghan stars in the psychological drama Saltburn from which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Keoghan plays Oliver Quick\, a bright\, young\, brooding social outcast who lands at Oxford and is quickly drawn to the handsome and aristocratic Felix Catton. Oliver strategically enters Felix’s inner circle by casting himself as a poor unfortunate soul\, drenched in familial madness and tragedy and thus secures an invitation to spend the summer at Felix’s grand ancestral home in the British countryside. The tropes of Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley are reworked with fascinating freshness. \nMost of the story locates at the massive Saltburn\, a grand estate complete with a labyrinth and colorful characters. Mesmerizing cinematography captures the opulence of the British upper class juxtaposed with grotesque ways in which the repressed returns in ruthless and devouring relational enactments.\nJoin us in exploring these evocative themes\, stirring rich psychoanalytic dialogue about essential early relationships\, environmental conditions\, un-held losses and the impact of these on one’s creative aliveness and establishing cohesive\, autonomous selfhoods. \nMary Starks MA\, LPCC\, is licensed psychoanalytic therapist in private practice in Santa Monica\, CA and holds a post graduate certification in Infant and Family Clinical Practice from the Harris Institute. She specializes in working with adults with childhood trauma and facilitates virtual Circle of Security Parenting Groups. She has a special interest in Psychoanalytic Film Theory and is a rising Mental Health Coordinator in Film/TV. \nJosh Richmond\, MPW\, FIPA\, offers psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults at his office in South Pasadena. He is a psychoanalyst and a graduate of the New Center for Psychoanalysis of Los Angeles\, where he is also on faculty\, and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Joshua C. Richmond is in the process of getting certified in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an evidence-based modality designed to treat personality disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Joshua C. Richmond was an Adjunct Professor at Cal State Fullerton for four years and is a vested member of the Writers Guild of America West. He served on the Board of Directors for the New Center for Psychoanalysis as a past CAO President and currently serves on the Program Committee. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-saltburn/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T083000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240909T145837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T145837Z UID:20000404-1726216200-1726216200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy:\nDetails of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy\nThis live\, online only\, interactive two-day program with Master TFP Clinician Frank Yeomans\, MD. PhD offers a refresher of basic TFP techniques and a sharp focus on the diagnostic phase of treatment with implementation of the TFP Contract\, including the methodology\, reasoning\, and evidence which supports contracting with difficult patients suffering from personality disorders. \nTransference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized\, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN). \nTFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience. \nPRESENTER:\nFrank Yeomans\, MD\, PhD\, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College\, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell\, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy\, Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development\, investigation\, teaching\, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally. URL:https://apsa.org/event/going-deeper-into-transference-focused-psychotherapy/ ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T003000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240229T171219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T173212Z UID:20000307-1710543600-1710549000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Joyland DESCRIPTION:Joyland (2022\, 2 hr 1 min\, from Pakistan) is a romantic tragedy written\, directed and co-edited by Saim Sadiq. Beyond the plot line\, the film shows what happens to “self” when societal roles prevent individuals from realizing identities. As a family drama\, Joyland raises the deeper identity problem of self-obliteration when the self isn’t seen by parental eyes. Joyland is an engaging but challenging film\, bringing new perspective to issues of “third gender.” \nLearning Objectives\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nIdentify ways in which patriarchal expectations result in the stifling of characters’ vision for their life and consequently lead to unrealized potential\nApply understanding of the multilayered psychodynamic impact of colonialism and criminalization on the “third gender” community in Pakistan in psychotherapy with their U.S.-based transgender patients and clients\nDiscuss the developmental cost of “emotional enslavement to a self-object” as presented in Joyland when experienced by patients/clients \nJoshua C. Richmond\, MPW\, is a vested member of the Writers Guild of America West and has written for film and television for over twenty years\, writing scripts for Ron Howard\, Universal\, Disney etc.\, and has created TV shows for Fox and Disney. Currently he teaches screenwriting and sitcom writing at Cal State Fullerton and is a psychoanalytic studies candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. \nManal Khan\, MD\, is a pediatric and adult psychiatrist at UCLA. Dr. Khan completed her residency training in general psychiatry at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, where she served as the chief resident of recruitment and wellness. She then completed her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCLA and served as the inaugural justice\, equity\, diversity\, and inclusion child psychiatry chief. After completing training\, she joined UCLA as faculty and now serves as the Associate Program Director for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship. \nCE credits. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-joyland/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T010000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240105T225512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T231033Z UID:20000251-1706916600-1706922000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Past Lives DESCRIPTION:Past Lives (2023\, 2hr\, 23 min) written and directed by Celine Song. The film follows the line of connection/disconnection over 24 years of a Korean boy and girl who are separated when her family moves to Canada. From the opening moments\, we wonder how that friendship will affect her American marriage\, which we are shown over the course of the film to be cozy and companionable. The film is beautifully and clearly rendered. The sense of emotional truth in each of the three characters is one of the film’s pleasures. When the husband speaks his frustration\, “You dream in a language that I don’t understand. I’m afraid there’s a place inside of you that I can’t get to…”\, we understand.\nLearning Objectives:\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nDiscuss the impact for immigrants of reveries that idealize the country of origin and require adjustments.\nDiscuss the psychodynamics of romantic fixation.\nSummarize the internal conflicts that arise with actively mourning lives that were never lived with emphasis on the consequences for assuming responsibility for decisions made. \nDiscussants: \nPeter Rainer is the Christian Science Monitor film critic and appears regularly on “Film Week” on LAist\, the local NPR affiliate. He was a finalist in 1998 for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and has won numerous first-place awards for his criticism from the Los Angeles Press Club. Prior to the Monitor\, Peter was a film critic for New York magazine\, the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He is the author of “Rainer on Film\,” which collected his best reviews and essays over a thirty-year span. He also edited the criticism collection “Love and Hisses.” Peter is also the writer and co-producer of A&E Biographies on Sidney Poitier and John Huston. Peter received a B.A. in 1973 from Brandeis University\, majoring in English and American literature and graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn an M.A. in film from USC. He has lectured on film worldwide\, including India and Abu Dhabi\, and served on the main juries for the Venice and Montreal film festivals. Peter has lectured and taught classes in film at\, among other institutions\, Columbia University\, NYU\, the New York Film Academy in Burbank\, Loyola\, UCLA\, AFI\, and USC. He has also appeared over the years as a film commentator for such outlets as CNN\, ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. His father\, Dr. John Rainer\, M.D.\, was a prominent New York psychoanalyst who was chief of the Department of Medical Genetics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is recognized especially for his pioneering work on the psychiatric problems of the deaf. \nBettina Soestwohner\, PhD\, PsyD holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine. She is a Graduate Research Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. She is a member of the California Circle of the EFQ (Freudian School of Quebec) and of the IFLF (International Forums of the Lacanian Field.) She has a private practice in Los Angeles. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-past-lives/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T200000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20240105T225512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T230442Z UID:20000256-1706268600-1706299200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (2-day program) DESCRIPTION:This is a two-day program. Registration is only available for the full two days. Check in starts at 8 AM each day. The program presentation is from 8:30 AM to 5 PM  See below for full schedule. \nThe New Center for Psychoanalysis and TFP New York present a two-day training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy \nNCP\, in association with TFP New York\, presents the two-day training “TFP for Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism” with Master TFP Clinicians Diana Diamond\, PhD and Frank Yeomans\, MD. \nIn this two-day follow up to last year’s training\, day one offerings will focus on TFP method of interpretation\, working with dyads and the Dominant Object relation. Day two will focus on TFP for NPD\, dissolution of the “Grandiose Self.” \nTransference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized\, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN). \nTFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience. \nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 26\nDay One will focus on working with patients with personality disorders organized at the borderline level with special emphasis on TFP tactics: the Structural interview\, Contract Setting\, and identifying Dominant Object Relations. \nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 27\nDay Two will focus on TFP for Narcissistic Personality Disorder with an emphasis on the Grandiose Self that separates NPD from other personality disorders and make it especially challenging to work with. \nDiana Diamond\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who specializes in theory\, research\, and treatment of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. She is Professor Emerita in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also a professor in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and is on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the recipient of several awards\, including most recently the Aaron Stern distinguished visiting professor award from Weill Cornell Medical College for her contributions to understanding the etiology and treatment of narcissistic pathology. She is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and heads their research committee for the Department of Psychoanalytic Education. Dr. Diamond currently teaches\, lectures\, and supervises TFP nationally and internationally\, and is in private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City and Sag Harbor\, NY. \nFrank Yeomans\, MD\, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College\, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell\, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy\, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy. Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development\, investigation\, teaching\, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at the Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally. \nIn addition to their individual published works\, Dr. Diamond and Dr Yeomans have co-authored Treating Narcissistic Pathology with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy with Barry Stern and Otto Kernberg. URL:https://apsa.org/event/transference-focused-psychotherapy/2024-01-26/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20231023T215717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T004407Z UID:20000229-1701518400-1701540000@apsa.org SUMMARY:"Note To Self: It's Time to Learn Lacan!" - An Introduction to Lacanian Clinical Theory and Practice DESCRIPTION:Bruce Fink joins NCP to discuss Lacan’s Clinical Theory”Analysts on the whole imagine that to understand is an end in itself… To think\, it is often better not to understand; and one can gallop along\, understanding for miles and miles\, without the slightest thought being produced.” – Lacan\, 1958 \nThis meeting is designed for analytically oriented therapists interested in learning how Lacan’s ideas translate into clinical practice. Lacan’s clinical theory will be spelled out in detail; attendees need not be pre-acquainted with Lacan’s work. Attendees should come away with a solid grasp of the reasoning behind the Lacanian emphasis on bringing about four specific change-producing clinical events. The goal of this program is to challenge preconceived notions about how therapy works–particularly\, the belief that psychic change chiefly results from a conveyance of the analyst’s knowledge about the patient to the patient—typically in the form of interpretations. The program is structured as a dialogue between student (Richard Tuch) and teacher (Bruce Fink). \nLacan emphasized the task of creating a facilitating environment favoring the emergence of sequestered psychic content that comes forth unwittingly when free association reveals to the patient things he barely knew he knew until he heard himself say as much out loud. Lacanians also facilitate a patient’s use of symbolic (meaningful) speech and tolerance of uncertainty and states of unknowing. \nA study of Lacan’s clinical theory calls for nothing less than a thoughtful reconsideration of psychoanalysis’ most basic assumptions about how therapy effects change: \nWhether the unconscious can be made conscious.\nWhether improving a patient’s tolerance of uncertainty and the unknown is a clinically vital goal.\nWhether deconstructing (calling into question) a patient’s core assumptions and prevailing beliefs about who he is as a person is as centrally important as Lacanians claim it to be.\nWhether treatment is better served when the analyst is less forthcoming and less clear about his ideas about the patient.\nWhether it is important to conduct treatment in a fashion that emphasizes the patient’s responsibility for his suffering and for the lion’s share of the clinical work. URL:https://apsa.org/event/note-to-self-its-time-to-learn-lacan-an-introduction-to-lacanian-clinical-theory-and-practice/ LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T010000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20230922T184516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T201905Z UID:20000187-1697756400-1697763600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis: Myths & Possibilities DESCRIPTION:This is a continuation of NCP’s Manifest Mind Series.\nAs psychedelic medicine moves toward wide clinical implementation\, psychoanalysts are establishing a specialized set of roles and methods separate from other psychotherapists. The value of psychedelic medicine in psychodynamic care has been extensively documented in the past decade\, corroborating published clinical experience in the earlier LSD era over 60 years ago. This two-hour presentation\, a continuance of our presentation on psychedelic medicine in the spring\, will be devoted to explorations of the clinical skills in working therapeutically with psychedelic medicine. This session examines three aspects of particular interest to analysts and presents challenges to be met with future psychoanalytic methodologies that extend our penetration into the misty realities ahead. \nSpeaker: \nThomas M. Brod\, MD\, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Senior Faculty at NCP. He is coordinator of the NCP series Manifest Mind\, devoted to the study of psychoanalysis and psychedelic medicine. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychedelics-and-psychoanalysis-myths-possibilities/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T010000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20230922T184516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T211936Z UID:20000186-1697239800-1697245200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Are You There God? It’s Me\, Margaret. DESCRIPTION:Directed by Kelly Freeman Craig\, Are You There God? It’s Me\, Margaret. (2023) is a film adaptation of the Judy Blume young-adult novel. Social\, biological\, and (to a much smaller extent) identity issues of puberty’s early edge are presented with charming verisimilitude (and earned a 99% positive rating on RottenTomatoes.com). In our discussion we will have opportunities to discuss the psychodynamic issues explicit in the film…and\, importantly\, unaddressed psychodynamic issues operating below the surface. \nDiscussants:  Ronnie Kaye\, PhD\, LMFT and Deborah Lynn\, MD URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T010000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20230826T014038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T022247Z UID:20000163-1696030200-1696035600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: Free Angela and All The Political Prisoners DESCRIPTION:Free Angela and All the Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch\, 2013) 1 hr 42 min.\nContemporary psychoanalysis as a field is struggling to make sense of racism and culturally imposed trauma. The final report of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis was published this past June. In discussing this 2013 documentary\, the NCP Film & Mind series picks up one of its recommendations\, urging “Talk with others about the Report’s findings and recommendations\, and the implications for the [psychotherapy] communities of which you are a part.” \nIn their NY Times review\, Nicolas Rapold wrote\, “Shola Lynch’s documentary about Angela Davis\, the activist and beacon of counterculture radicalism\, is a snappily edited\, archivally wallpapered recollection of fearless behavior in the face of an antsy establishment. But it’s equally significant as a pointed act of retelling.” The film tells the complex story of Angela Davis\, presently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, whose social activism led to her name on the FBI’s most-wanted list. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-free-angela-and-all-the-political-prisoners/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T010000 DTSTAMP:20260604T165053 CREATED:20230826T014038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230826T021407Z UID:20000162-1695337200-1695344400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times DESCRIPTION:Michael J. Diamond\, PhD\, FIPA \nIn this two-hour presentation\, Dr. Diamond will examine larger social and cultural factors at play during today’s perilous times. He describes destructive populism and group regression as exemplified by malignant cult-like elements. The current political discourse. Using both a psychoanalytic and a cultural lens\, he analyzes the development of paranoid\, conspiratorial thinking and the dangerous fit between malevolent\, proto-fascist leadership and group adherence to dangerous\, unconscious phantasies arising in both extreme right-wing as well as passionate leftist enclaves. He concludes by considering approaches that potentially decrease the potency of the nation’s destructive elements while furthering healthier containment that strengthens the body politics’ nonpathological elements through managing its inherent tensions. URL:https://apsa.org/event/ruptures-in-the-american-psyche-containing-destructive-populism-in-perilous-times/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR